cornija
/kuɾ.ˈni.ʒɐ/
The verdict
“cornija” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,026 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,026
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ornato saliente na parte superior de uma parede, porta, móvel, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornija |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kuɾ.ˈni.ʒɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cornija” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cornija is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,026 among 3,948 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kuɾ.ˈni.ʒɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ornato saliente na parte superior de uma parede, porta, móvel, etc.".
cornija doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is cornija, spelled C-O-R-N-I-J-A.
Definition
- 1ornato saliente na parte superior de uma parede, porta, móvel, etc.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cornija”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-R-N-I-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kuɾ.ˈni.ʒɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.